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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

MLA Kulgam, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, (KL Image: Bilal Bahadur)

‘Our Demand Is Restoration Of Pre-August 5 Status’

Four-time lawmaker, who was recently appointed as the spokesman for the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami tells Yawar Hussain that the alliance is open to...

‘Poonch border is the largest jail in India’

Shah Mohammad Tantray left government job to join politics. He left NC and joined PDP that led NC to lose Poonch for the first...

‘Food Can Build Your Capacity To Resist Covid19’

Beenish Zohra, a practising dietician and a clinical nutritionist, tells Farzana Nisar that good food plays an important role in building the immune system...

‘Peace Follows Justice And Truth’

Farah Bashir, author of Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published this spring explains why she is restless and anxious...

‘Give Us Same Rights As Migrant Kashmiri Pandits’

Sanjay Tickoo is the leader of Kashmiri  Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, the group of the members of the community that didn’t migrate from Kashmir in...

‘We Are Paying Interest On Interest’

As the GST introduced taxing of the industry for the first time in history, the work environment turned upside down, initially in August 2019...

‘Government of India Wants Everyone To Beg For Statehood’

In an interview conducted through Whatsapp – owing to Covid19 protocol, PDP President and former Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti tells Yawar Hussain that offering statehood to Jammu and...

‘The World Around Us Will Change In These Two Years’

Before joining as Jammu and Kashmir’s Principal Secretary for Industries and Commerce, senior IRTS officer, Ranjan Prakash Thakur has held many key positions. Born...

‘We Are Trying To Technologically Equip Our Schools’

Director of School Education Kashmir, Tassaduq Hussain Mir is a busy man these days. He has to ensure that the government schools adopt and...

This crisis will give me goose bumps for the rest of my life

Associated Press’s Srinagar based award winning photographer Dar Yasin has been to Afghanistan and many other places but is overwhelmed by the Myanmar crisis...

‘No Statehood, We Want Article 370’

For most of his political career, Prof Saifuddin Soz has been in the parliament. Recently, he was in the news after the guards stationed...

‘The Two Families Would Grab Power If Statehood Is Restored’

BJP president for Jammu and Kashmir, Ravinder Raina insists that it is important that Jammu and Kashmir should remain a UT for some more...

“Our enforcement wing remains in the market round the clock to check black-marketing”

An alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, Mir Mushtaq, started his stint in government services as district social welfare officer. As his years in office spanned, he was...

“Profitability high on lending operations in J&K”

State’s only listed company, the J&K Bank declared a profit of Rs 409.84 crores for 2008-09. This is the highest ever profit that the...
Safeena Beigh (KL Image by Shuaib Wani)

‘I Have Risen From The Ground In These Elections, Nobody Can Term Me A...

Trained lawyer and wife of former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, Safeena Beigh, who won her DDC election from Wagoora after defeating the...